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How Light Seriously Impacts Your Health & What If You Had a Different Profession?

2024/8/1
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Dan Heath
美国畅销书作者、演讲者和杜克大学CASE中心高级研究员,著有多本影响广泛的商业书籍。
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Martin Moore-Ede
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Mike Carruthers
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Mike Carruthers: 本期节目探讨了男性和女性在购物时的差异,以及人工光照对健康的影响,并采访了不同职业的人士,分享他们的工作体验。 Martin Moore-Ede: 人工光照,特别是蓝光,会严重影响人体生物钟,导致褪黑素分泌减少,增加肥胖、糖尿病、心脏病和某些癌症的风险。现代人长期暴露在昏暗的人工光线下,如同慢性时差综合征,需要增加日间日照,减少夜间蓝光照射。 Dan Heath: 本期节目采访了特勤局特工、FBI特工、棒球场啤酒销售员、夏令营主管、喜剧演员和婚姻治疗师,展现了不同职业的独特之处和挑战。特勤局特工的工作需要高度的警觉和协调能力;FBI特工的工作大部分时间是处理文书工作,只有小部分时间进行实地行动;棒球场啤酒销售员的工作不仅是卖啤酒,还包括与顾客建立联系和处理突发情况;夏令营主管的工作是全年性的,需要处理各种突发事件和人际关系问题;喜剧演员的工作充满挑战,需要不断创作和磨练段子;婚姻治疗师的工作需要处理大量负面情绪,并帮助夫妻重新看待彼此。 Mike Carruthers: 本期节目还介绍了一些日常生活中容易被忽视的卫生死角,例如信用卡、电子产品、地毯背面、卫生纸卷纸架和盐瓶胡椒瓶等,提醒大家注意清洁消毒。

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Are men more rational shoppers than women? Most definitely not. This episode begins by revealing how men are easily duped into thinking something is a bargain when it isn’t. https://www.businessinsider.com/consumers-link-color-with-savings-2013-7)

The invention of the electric light has made life easier. But there is a real downside to artificial light. It is messing up your body clock and it can have a serious negative impact on your health. Diabetes, cancer and heart disease have been linked to light exposure. The evidence is compelling and one of the leading experts in this field joins me to explain the seriousness of this problem. He is Dr. Martin Moore-Ede who is s a medical doctor, former professor at Harvard Medical School and he is one of the leading experts on circadian rhythms, biological clocks and light exposure. Dr. Moore-Ede holds multiple patents related to light and circadian rhythms and he is author of a bestselling book on this subject called The Light Doctor The Light Doctor: Using Light to Boost Health, Improve Sleep, and Live Longer (https://amzn.to/3WnqzBo))

I bet you have seen people working in other professions and wondered what it must be like to perform that job. Some jobs seem glamorous, others look boring while others appear to be extremely difficult – but are they? Dan Heath, who is the author of several bestselling books and a previous guest here, has a new podcast called What It's Like to Be (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-its-like-to-be/id1707204412)) where he explores what it is like to work in other professions. Listen as he reveals what it is like to be a Secret Service agent, a high school principal, a marriage counselor, a comedian and more. 

You probably don’t wash your credit cards, but you should. They are one of several rather germy surfaces you touch all the time but never think about. Listen and I will reveal what these nasty surfaces are and why touching them is a bad thing.

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